The abstracts are available. You can find who wrote it. If I need a paper I email one of the authors and they send it. People email me asking for papers I wrote. Why the need for tweeting?
I'd guess that tweeting it provides a way for others to get notification of the paper's existence or where it can be obtained; kind of another way of making those in the same scientific community aware it it.
We must stamp out this blatant sharing of important scientific information lest the poor publishers go broke, and end up in the street, naked and hungry and homeless!
In other news, the Department Of Homeland Security declares that Apple is now an "Enemy of the State", and will be moving to seize all of their assets.
"...several security weaknesses like RAM leakage, weak key attacks and even backdoors on some of these devices, resulting in decrypted user data, without the knowledge of any user credentials."
I know I'm simply stunned by this hard-to-believe finding.
It's almost like somebody somewhere intended for the drive to be able to be read in spite of all the super-duper-mega-awesome data protection whatchamacallit stuff.
Either that or all of the engineers at Western Digital involved in designing this thing are utter morons who have no idea what they're doing.
Are you really telling me that in this entire country there isn't anyone with the skills to fill that job? BULLSHIT. This is probably even true at a state level, and also probably true at a local level as well.
Maybe if you're looking for something really esoteric, but a programming job or skill? Sorry, I call BULLSHIT.
It's nothing more than a way to get cheap, compliant labor while simultaneously driving down wages and sucking up tax breaks. I live a few miles from Microsofts Redmond campus, trust me when I say that I know what I'm talking about.
The entire H-1B program should junked and redone so that only TRULY "unfindable" skills or candidates would qualify.
Seriously, buy a decent (preferably used) RV and your standard of living (such as it is) would go up considerably over the bed of a pickup truck.
They have a stove, shower, bed, seating, etc etc. I know people that have lived comfortably in an RV for months while touring the country. (Obviously the meaning of "comfortably" is open to discussion, but still...) Hell, I've lived in crappy rooms that weren't as nice as some low to mid-range RVs.
Is it for me? Probably not, but no doubt it would work fine for some people. The whole "hay baby, lets go back to my place" thing takes a big hit, but that would have been true of some of the places I've lived for that matter.
With that said, this is what happens when rents go out of sight and home prices rise along with them. A "living wage" these days will hardly let you buy a home in most parts of the country without years and years of saving, and this is especially so in most metropolitan areas. I myself probably couldn't afford to buy another home if I sold mine. Not exactly a ringing endorsement of what's happening in America these days.:(
But in turn the gun is WAY less inert. I mean, you can pretty much maim and abuse a conventional gun in most any way you could imagine and at worst it won't shoot anymore (or at least would not be safe to shoot anymore).
I wouldn't want to hold a railgun that gets hit by something, though. Even if unloaded.
Yep, a damaged railgun could cause a lot of injuries to bystanders or the shooter.
With that said, I think few attempts have been made to ruggedize them so far and I suspect that one could be made that was far more "battlefield friendly", so to speak. Up to now they've mostly been proof-of-concept devices, but put a few good engineers on it and they could probably build a fairly robust device.
It seems like they'd be more prone to damage from knocks and drops, but that was true of the first field phones and radios- drop them once and they were junk. Now you can kick them out a window and they'll hardly notice. Obviously a railgun is a lot more complex and tolerance-dependent, but never underestimate the desire to make a practical weapon of war from a laboratory device.
Encasing it in a rugged shell and cushioning the parts would probably go as long way towards making it durable and resilient enough to be used in certain settings, much like a sniper rifle. Drop a sniper rifle and you've probably borked the accuracy if not ruined/broken the scope, but still, I suspect railguns may find a home in some sort of vehicle mounted application or possibly a portable, crew-served device.
"Oh yeah, I'll fix it. I'll fix it soooooooooo good you'll need to call in an actual paid contractor to unfix it."
Lol, I would love to get a call from an old employer like this, the schadenfreude would be delicious, as would be the myriad excuses I would come up with in lieu of a more direct "Fuck off and die!"
I'm in Bahrain for the tulip festival and won't be back for a couple of months. I fell and have a head injury...who are you again? My new employer says they'll sue me if I help you in any way, sorry, it's a no-compete clause in my contract. I converted to being Amish and I am no longer able to do your technological Devil's work! My parole officer says I cannot associate with any of my old co-workers. I can't come to the building, it's within 1000 feet of a school....
Do you have any clue where the Idaho National Lab is? It's nobody's backyard. There are few more perfect places on the planet for "high level nuclear waste".
Been there, worked there (installed some scientific equipment there). It's miles and miles and miles and miles and miles from anywhere. But they have a helluva cafeteria. Leave Idaho Falls, drive 2 hours out to the site, work for 5 hours, drive 2 hours back to the hotel.
I remember you take a left at a place called "Mud Flats", no lie. I used to get the rental cars up to 120 on the roads leading out there. No cops for 100 miles in any direction, whoo hoo!
Idaho would be a perfect place to get rid of mountains of nuclear waste.
Just pile it up, throw a tarp over it, and the local yokels will come and steal it, carting it away by the pickup truck load.
Seriously, these goobers would steal dog shit if you put a sign up saying "PLEASE DON'T STEAL THE DOG SHIT".
True story: A friend of mine crushed his old, broken refrigerator flat with his tractor and left it in the yard (he was going to take it to the dump in a few days). It was stolen the next night.
Private manufacture of non NFA restricted firearm is legal.
I may have misunderstood you, but it's entirely legal to make your own firearm at home.
That doesn't include machine guns, short-barreled rifles/shotguns, suppressors, and "destructive devices" (grenades, bombs, etc) but you can indeed make your own handguns and long guns (rifles) without any legal liability as long as you don't sell or transfer them to another person or entity.
Most of the larger email providers are very, very fickle about receiving email from major domains that aren't already recognized (gmail, yahoo, outlook, hotmail, etc).
They either silently drop the mail I send to them or reject it outright, arbitrarily labeling it as "spam" or "suspicious".
Several of the sites I run (some which sell products and some which are just forums for groups of like-minded people) almost never manage to successfully get an email to the people who are signing up and/or who have just bought a product.
If I manually resend the confirmation email from a Yahoo account then it goes right through. Same thing for people who buy stuff from my sites- often times they don't get any email allowing them access to the service or product they just purchased unless I manually resend the confirmation or product access email.
And in case you're wondering, no, I *never* send spam or any kind of unsolicited emails, never, ever, period. I never have and never will, but that hasn't saved me from being lumped in with all the shitbags who do.
Thanks a lot, spammers...you've really managed to fuck it up for everyone. If I could hunt you fuckers down and snap your necks, I'd do it.
For me, I think that unless I needed some tablet-only feature I'd probably just buy a nice laptop for ~$2000 and call it good. You can get a pretty nice laptop for $2K although I don't see very many with pressure-sensitive screens (a few are available, though).
I owned a Commodore and an Atari, there were some great games for each of them.
My Atari was outfitted with the "Happy Drive", does anyone remember that?:) You could copy any game with one of those, and I do mean any game, regardless of all the funky copy protection schemes they came up with. Missing sectors, duplicate sectors, "fuzzy" sectors, sectors written outside the normal cylinders, etc etc.
My old Atari has been stored in a box for so long I'd be afraid to turn it on for fear of something blowing up (like the electrolytic caps). I have tons of cartridges and loads and loads of floppies, all lovingly stored away. I have no idea if the floppies could even be read now, but who knows. Sectors were gigantic back then so they might just still be recoverable.
I know there are software emulators out there for it, but a new Atari hardware gadget or re-make or whatever would be something I'd probably pony up some bucks for.
From experience and various literature: there are many problems. A notable and well documented difference is the willingness of men to speak up more then women in mixed gender courses.
Then perhaps they need assertiveness training, not an artificially welcoming environment.
There's no trick to speaking up, you just have to do it. If they don't learn to do it then they'll be at a disadvantage in an actual workplace.
Sequestering them in an environment where they don't learn to do this isn't going to help anyone.
Microsoft's 1TB Surface Book will cost you $3199 (plus tax), which seems a bit steep to me.
Yes, it comes with a 1TB solid state drive, but honestly, who is going to fork over ~$3,500 for a tablet? Sure, I can see a few niche applications that might require this kind of storage, but damn...$3500?
You could buy several 128GB WiFi + Cellular iPads and still have enough left over for lunch, assuming you didn't need a full terabyte of HDD space.
Or you could buy an HP EliteOne 800 G1 (Core i7, 1TB, 3.2 GHz, 8 GB RAM) for about $1,400 per unit...
I'm just not seeing why the huge price difference for the Surface would be worth it.
It always surprises me that these sorts of changes come down as a decree rather than being turned into an option.
It's as if the notion that "some people might still want this" is a foreign concept. It eliminates the user having any choice in the matter, which to me seems the opposite of what computers are all about: choice and personalization.
Obviously Google had a reason to do this, but still- why not allow it as an option?
I just don't get this "my way or the highway" dictate coming down from on high...would it have been so hard or cost so much to make this a user-selectable option?
Is it not astonishing that you have to "sudo" to get some software?
Well, yes and no.
True, it's an extra step, but as others have said it's a good thing in terms of security to require root (or at least elevated) permissions to install stuff.
Just look at the disastrous and malicious stuff that routinely managed to install itself on older versions of Windows...if they'd forced people to make a user account with tighter install privileges, half the stuff that plagued (err, plagues) Windows boxes would never have gotten a foothold. This is how botnets and key loggers and root kits and all sorts of other malware became so commonplace.
So all in all, I'm okay with an extra step or two when it comes to installing stuff on my servers and desktops.
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The abstracts are available. You can find who wrote it. If I need a paper I email one of the authors and they send it.
People email me asking for papers I wrote.
Why the need for tweeting?
I'd guess that tweeting it provides a way for others to get notification of the paper's existence or where it can be obtained; kind of another way of making those in the same scientific community aware it it.
We must stamp out this blatant sharing of important scientific information lest the poor publishers go broke, and end up in the street, naked and hungry and homeless!
That will be a day of great internal struggle for most /.'ers.
Yes, but that will be offset by the news that DHS will also declare Microsoft to be an "Enemy of the State".
In other news, the Department Of Homeland Security declares that Apple is now an "Enemy of the State", and will be moving to seize all of their assets.
"...several security weaknesses like RAM leakage, weak key attacks and even backdoors on some of these devices, resulting in decrypted user data, without the knowledge of any user credentials."
I know I'm simply stunned by this hard-to-believe finding.
It's almost like somebody somewhere intended for the drive to be able to be read in spite of all the super-duper-mega-awesome data protection whatchamacallit stuff.
Either that or all of the engineers at Western Digital involved in designing this thing are utter morons who have no idea what they're doing.
US schools should teach Hindi.
Schools these days barely teach English, I'm not sure they're capable of teaching an actual foreign language.
Way ahead of you...I'll be voting for him both in the primary and in the general election. :)
99% of the H-1B circus is bullshit.
Are you really telling me that in this entire country there isn't anyone with the skills to fill that job? BULLSHIT.
This is probably even true at a state level, and also probably true at a local level as well.
Maybe if you're looking for something really esoteric, but a programming job or skill? Sorry, I call BULLSHIT.
It's nothing more than a way to get cheap, compliant labor while simultaneously driving down wages and sucking up tax breaks. I live a few miles from Microsofts Redmond campus, trust me when I say that I know what I'm talking about.
The entire H-1B program should junked and redone so that only TRULY "unfindable" skills or candidates would qualify.
Seriously, buy a decent (preferably used) RV and your standard of living (such as it is) would go up considerably over the bed of a pickup truck.
They have a stove, shower, bed, seating, etc etc. I know people that have lived comfortably in an RV for months while touring the country. (Obviously the meaning of "comfortably" is open to discussion, but still...) Hell, I've lived in crappy rooms that weren't as nice as some low to mid-range RVs.
Is it for me? Probably not, but no doubt it would work fine for some people. The whole "hay baby, lets go back to my place" thing takes a big hit, but that would have been true of some of the places I've lived for that matter.
With that said, this is what happens when rents go out of sight and home prices rise along with them. A "living wage" these days will hardly let you buy a home in most parts of the country without years and years of saving, and this is especially so in most metropolitan areas. I myself probably couldn't afford to buy another home if I sold mine. Not exactly a ringing endorsement of what's happening in America these days. :(
But in turn the gun is WAY less inert. I mean, you can pretty much maim and abuse a conventional gun in most any way you could imagine and at worst it won't shoot anymore (or at least would not be safe to shoot anymore).
I wouldn't want to hold a railgun that gets hit by something, though. Even if unloaded.
Yep, a damaged railgun could cause a lot of injuries to bystanders or the shooter.
With that said, I think few attempts have been made to ruggedize them so far and I suspect that one could be made that was far more "battlefield friendly", so to speak. Up to now they've mostly been proof-of-concept devices, but put a few good engineers on it and they could probably build a fairly robust device.
It seems like they'd be more prone to damage from knocks and drops, but that was true of the first field phones and radios- drop them once and they were junk. Now you can kick them out a window and they'll hardly notice. Obviously a railgun is a lot more complex and tolerance-dependent, but never underestimate the desire to make a practical weapon of war from a laboratory device.
Encasing it in a rugged shell and cushioning the parts would probably go as long way towards making it durable and resilient enough to be used in certain settings, much like a sniper rifle. Drop a sniper rifle and you've probably borked the accuracy if not ruined/broken the scope, but still, I suspect railguns may find a home in some sort of vehicle mounted application or possibly a portable, crew-served device.
Do railguns have any potential benefits over traditional powder-based guns?
Lots of potential benefits...
No muzzle flash, probably less noise, a potentially faster reload cycle, and the ammunition is safer, i.e. more inert.
The velocity of the round could be varied easily, and lots of different types of projectiles could be used more easily.
"Oh yeah, I'll fix it. I'll fix it soooooooooo good you'll need to call in an actual paid contractor to unfix it."
Lol, I would love to get a call from an old employer like this, the schadenfreude would be delicious, as would be the myriad excuses I would come up with in lieu of a more direct "Fuck off and die!"
I'm in Bahrain for the tulip festival and won't be back for a couple of months.
I fell and have a head injury...who are you again?
My new employer says they'll sue me if I help you in any way, sorry, it's a no-compete clause in my contract.
I converted to being Amish and I am no longer able to do your technological Devil's work!
My parole officer says I cannot associate with any of my old co-workers.
I can't come to the building, it's within 1000 feet of a school....
Do you have any clue where the Idaho National Lab is? It's nobody's backyard. There are few more perfect places on the planet for "high level nuclear waste".
Been there, worked there (installed some scientific equipment there). It's miles and miles and miles and miles and miles from anywhere. But they have a helluva cafeteria. Leave Idaho Falls, drive 2 hours out to the site, work for 5 hours, drive 2 hours back to the hotel.
I remember you take a left at a place called "Mud Flats", no lie. I used to get the rental cars up to 120 on the roads leading out there. No cops for 100 miles in any direction, whoo hoo!
Idaho would be a perfect place to get rid of mountains of nuclear waste.
Just pile it up, throw a tarp over it, and the local yokels will come and steal it, carting it away by the pickup truck load.
Seriously, these goobers would steal dog shit if you put a sign up saying "PLEASE DON'T STEAL THE DOG SHIT".
True story: A friend of mine crushed his old, broken refrigerator flat with his tractor and left it in the yard (he was going to take it to the dump in a few days). It was stolen the next night.
Private manufacture of non NFA restricted firearm is legal.
I may have misunderstood you, but it's entirely legal to make your own firearm at home.
That doesn't include machine guns, short-barreled rifles/shotguns, suppressors, and "destructive devices" (grenades, bombs, etc) but you can indeed make your own handguns and long guns (rifles) without any legal liability as long as you don't sell or transfer them to another person or entity.
My apologies if I misunderstood your comment.
Most of the larger email providers are very, very fickle about receiving email from major domains that aren't already recognized (gmail, yahoo, outlook, hotmail, etc).
They either silently drop the mail I send to them or reject it outright, arbitrarily labeling it as "spam" or "suspicious".
Several of the sites I run (some which sell products and some which are just forums for groups of like-minded people) almost never manage to successfully get an email to the people who are signing up and/or who have just bought a product.
If I manually resend the confirmation email from a Yahoo account then it goes right through. Same thing for people who buy stuff from my sites- often times they don't get any email allowing them access to the service or product they just purchased unless I manually resend the confirmation or product access email.
And in case you're wondering, no, I *never* send spam or any kind of unsolicited emails, never, ever, period. I never have and never will, but that hasn't saved me from being lumped in with all the shitbags who do.
Thanks a lot, spammers...you've really managed to fuck it up for everyone. If I could hunt you fuckers down and snap your necks, I'd do it.
I agree with most if not all of what you said.
For me, I think that unless I needed some tablet-only feature I'd probably just buy a nice laptop for ~$2000 and call it good. You can get a pretty nice laptop for $2K although I don't see very many with pressure-sensitive screens (a few are available, though).
I owned a Commodore and an Atari, there were some great games for each of them.
My Atari was outfitted with the "Happy Drive", does anyone remember that? :) You could copy any game with one of those, and I do mean any game, regardless of all the funky copy protection schemes they came up with. Missing sectors, duplicate sectors, "fuzzy" sectors, sectors written outside the normal cylinders, etc etc.
My old Atari has been stored in a box for so long I'd be afraid to turn it on for fear of something blowing up (like the electrolytic caps). I have tons of cartridges and loads and loads of floppies, all lovingly stored away. I have no idea if the floppies could even be read now, but who knows. Sectors were gigantic back then so they might just still be recoverable.
I know there are software emulators out there for it, but a new Atari hardware gadget or re-make or whatever would be something I'd probably pony up some bucks for.
From experience and various literature: there are many problems. A notable and well documented difference is the willingness of men to speak up more then women in mixed gender courses.
Then perhaps they need assertiveness training, not an artificially welcoming environment.
There's no trick to speaking up, you just have to do it. If they don't learn to do it then they'll be at a disadvantage in an actual workplace.
Sequestering them in an environment where they don't learn to do this isn't going to help anyone.
Microsoft's 1TB Surface Book will cost you $3199 (plus tax), which seems a bit steep to me.
Yes, it comes with a 1TB solid state drive, but honestly, who is going to fork over ~$3,500 for a tablet? Sure, I can see a few niche applications that might require this kind of storage, but damn...$3500?
You could buy several 128GB WiFi + Cellular iPads and still have enough left over for lunch, assuming you didn't need a full terabyte of HDD space.
Or you could buy an HP EliteOne 800 G1 (Core i7, 1TB, 3.2 GHz, 8 GB RAM) for about $1,400 per unit...
I'm just not seeing why the huge price difference for the Surface would be worth it.
so maybe google is trying it's best to protect us. At least that is what I am hoping for.
Lol, that's so fucking adorable, I'm going to print this post out and frame it.
It always surprises me that these sorts of changes come down as a decree rather than being turned into an option.
It's as if the notion that "some people might still want this" is a foreign concept. It eliminates the user having any choice in the matter, which to me seems the opposite of what computers are all about: choice and personalization.
Obviously Google had a reason to do this, but still- why not allow it as an option?
I just don't get this "my way or the highway" dictate coming down from on high...would it have been so hard or cost so much to make this a user-selectable option?
Post something original.
"Fuck off" ...is that original enough for you?
How is that different to having your android phone stolen, where you have gmail, facebook etc etc open, logged into etc all the time?
I don't use a smart phone and I don't use facebook, gmail, etc etc, so for me it's not a problem.
Everyone else is free to do whatever strikes their fancy.
My point is I don't want a text every time I need to login to something.
Is it not astonishing that you have to "sudo" to get some software?
Well, yes and no.
True, it's an extra step, but as others have said it's a good thing in terms of security to require root (or at least elevated) permissions to install stuff.
Just look at the disastrous and malicious stuff that routinely managed to install itself on older versions of Windows...if they'd forced people to make a user account with tighter install privileges, half the stuff that plagued (err, plagues) Windows boxes would never have gotten a foothold. This is how botnets and key loggers and root kits and all sorts of other malware became so commonplace.
So all in all, I'm okay with an extra step or two when it comes to installing stuff on my servers and desktops.